Laith Abdelrahman

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Principal at Driftwood Venture Partners · Developer infrastructure

Driftwood Venture Partners
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
5+ years experience
American University in Cairo
English, Arabic
Investing
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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Driftwood Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 21 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with developer tools and open source. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
developer toolsopen sourceventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in Southeast Asia

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, fintech
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 2 weeks.

Dubai, UAEopen sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Driftwood Venture Partners · 8 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Led or co-led 29 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 10 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Staff ML Engineer
    May 2024 - Feb 2026
    Mastercard · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Taught SQL to 134 non-analysts.
    • Cut forecast error from 20% to 9% across 839 SKUs.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2022 - May 2024
    Fiverr · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
    Monday.com · 8 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 24 a week to 3.
    • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. American University in Cairo
    BA, Engineering
    2016 - 2020

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